Correct me if I'm wrong but I was under the impression that most of the software (symantec or otherwise) sold through spam was either not legally licensed or outright pirated
Under most circumstances I am all for outlawing spam however I would be worried that any kind of ocntent-based laws (i.e. saying it is legal to send children spam selling disney videos but not porno sites) would be used is a precursor censorship of things other then spam (i.e. laws saying the owners of adults-only websites are responsible for making sure children don't visit their sites)
That said what we really need is a content-blind law that outlaws all spam reguardless of it's content or recipients.
All credit cards allow the company to know is the merchant, time, amount and sometimes location of a purchase. Credit card companies aren't told what items you bought. In addition rfids (unlike barcodes) are unique to the item, not just the type (i.e. all 20 ox bottles of Jolt Cola have the same barcode but if they added rfids each bottle would have a different id number) because of this companies, governemnts, etc could (and likley will if rfids become common place) use them to track people's movements both for comercial purposes (such as recording what someone is wearing and carrying when they walk into a store and linking it to what they buy in a marketing database) and things like tracking where people go for a wide range of reassons.
In addition, barcodes and credit cards have to be activly scanned and therefore the person knows whenever their card is being swipped, but rfids can be read at anytime without the knowledge or consent of the person who has them.
While your points are mostly true it still doesn't justify piracy simply because the software companies know this and if they wanted to make sales based on this approach they could release their programs as shareware.
That said, I think the most important fact one needs to note is that the BSA numbers are complete BS based on statistics they made up to justify their extortion based enforcment practicies and support of draconion laws.
An NC-17 film is protected free speech. But a minor can't walk in and see that. That's because a minor doesn't share the basic rights of an adult in the US, but instead needs parental consent to obtain these rights
Actually, it is because the NC-17 (and the movie ratting system as a whole) is a voluntery policy adapted by the MPAA and NATO (National Association of Theater Owners.) It is not a law and the government is in no way involved in it's enforcment and in fact producers and theaters are free to ignore it if they see fit (e.g. unrated films, the fact that the R ratting is rarely, if ever enforced) with no penalty
Was there ever a legal version of Napter? I remember running a beta of the legal version for about a week before deciding it sucked and I don't recall them ever actuall releasing a final version or collecting any fees (at least not under the napster name).
As for Roxio, we'll see what they do, but all they have done so far is start selling t-shirts with the napster logo.
It would likley by covered but in my experience schools rarely, if ever, actually enforce TOS clauses like this unless there is a complaint (i.e RIAA cease-and-desist letter to the university)
This logic could be applied to things like M$'s activation schemes (although I doubt it could be applied successfully) but piracy has nothing to do with the substance of the new licensing agreements. The real problem with these terms IMHO is that M$ is trying to force people to pay a yearly fee (rather than just paying for the software they want) and upgrade to the newest versions regardless of whether they want to or not.
M$ knows that they are getting little or no money from the many companies still using Windows 2000 (or earlier), Office 97, etc and wants to eastablish a new system where they get paid every year no matter what and can force people to always use (and pay for) the newest versions of their software.
Does this apply to all TiVos or only Series 2. I have a Sony SVR-2000 (Series 1) and would love to plug it into my network insted of the phone is this possible?
Just imagine the beautiful irony though, if a helicopter's armor was immune to a laser, but a rock hurled from a sling knock it out of the sky?
Something close to this actually happened in Vietnam where the US military helicopter people concentrated their R+D money on aviods SAM and AA fire and left a major (I believe it was a expoosed fuel line but don't quote me on that) that allowed farmers to shoot down US choppers with their old hunting rifles (something that actually happened on a semi-regular basis).
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It looks to me like they are going to rebrand PressPlay as the new legal Napster and hope that people buy it because of name recognition
I don't follow it as closley as I used to but I still download a new build about once a month. As for new features the junk mail filters (something I've been waiting for for a long time) seem much improved in 1.4b over the last version I was using (a nightly build released shortly after 1.4a)other than that it seems pretty much the same.
That said, Mozilla is still far better than IE and has become the default browers on all my systems (both Linux and Winblows)
More Acurate:
Under Windows:
Insert CD
Autorun
Installer Crashes
Run setup.exe
Type in ID number
Wait...
Installer Frezzes up
Run setup.exe
Type in ID number
Click through 37 page EULA that could say they promise to give Bill Gates your first born child for all you know
Wait...
Click Icon
Get Error Message
Download and Install new drivers for video and sound card
Reboot
Click Icon
Download and Install new version of DirectX
Reboot
Click Icon
Blue Screen of Death
Reboot
Click Icon
Wait...
Play until game crashes again
Under Linux:
Insert CD
Start Wine
Load Binary
Crashes
Load Again
Get untellagible error message
Give up on trying to run Windows games on Linux and find something better to do.
"Here's another spoiler for you, Anakin will become Darth Vader and use a red light saber."
Damnit! Now you gave it away and there's no reasson for me to see the movie.
Since each TV ad aired reaches thousands, if not millions, of people and the TV networks don't know exactly who is watching what show it is impossible to target to individual taste. Instead they target their ads to broad demographic groups. For example young and middle aged men make up the majority of people watching football so they run ads for products typicall associated with those groups (ie. beer, cars, etc). Children are most likley to be watching saturday morning cartoons, so they advirtise things like toys and kool-aid
Internet voting will not "cure voter apathy" but it will increase turnout mearly because it will allow people who don't have the time, motivation and/or ability to go to a polling place and wait in line to vote. Whether or not this is a good thing, however, is another issue altogether
I have been using both MS Office and StarOffice/OO for about 2 years (MS on my work desktop (Win2k), OO on my personal laptop(Red Hat Linux) and have never had any significant problems. I find OO to be full featured and as easy to use as MS with the pluses of being free and running on Linux.
Just out of curiousity what do you use to listen to your mp3 player. I have a creative jukebox 3 that I listen to with good (but not audiophile quality) headphones and in my car (through a tape adapter) and honestly can't tell the difference between a good mp3 and a cd played through the same speakers/headphones
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Correct me if I'm wrong but I was under the impression that most of the software (symantec or otherwise) sold through spam was either not legally licensed or outright pirated
That said what we really need is a content-blind law that outlaws all spam reguardless of it's content or recipients.
In addition, barcodes and credit cards have to be activly scanned and therefore the person knows whenever their card is being swipped, but rfids can be read at anytime without the knowledge or consent of the person who has them.
That said, I think the most important fact one needs to note is that the BSA numbers are complete BS based on statistics they made up to justify their extortion based enforcment practicies and support of draconion laws.
Actually, it is because the NC-17 (and the movie ratting system as a whole) is a voluntery policy adapted by the MPAA and NATO (National Association of Theater Owners.) It is not a law and the government is in no way involved in it's enforcment and in fact producers and theaters are free to ignore it if they see fit (e.g. unrated films, the fact that the R ratting is rarely, if ever enforced) with no penalty
As for Roxio, we'll see what they do, but all they have done so far is start selling t-shirts with the napster logo.
It would likley by covered but in my experience schools rarely, if ever, actually enforce TOS clauses like this unless there is a complaint (i.e RIAA cease-and-desist letter to the university)
There is. It's called Direct Connect and ever since someone at my school setup a hub I hardly ever use Kazaa anymore
Glad to know I'm not the only person who hates Fileplanet. Just use BT
M$ knows that they are getting little or no money from the many companies still using Windows 2000 (or earlier), Office 97, etc and wants to eastablish a new system where they get paid every year no matter what and can force people to always use (and pay for) the newest versions of their software.
Just as soon as all the drug dealers start checking rfid tags
Does this apply to all TiVos or only Series 2. I have a Sony SVR-2000 (Series 1) and would love to plug it into my network insted of the phone is this possible?
Something close to this actually happened in Vietnam where the US military helicopter people concentrated their R+D money on aviods SAM and AA fire and left a major (I believe it was a expoosed fuel line but don't quote me on that) that allowed farmers to shoot down US choppers with their old hunting rifles (something that actually happened on a semi-regular basis).
It looks to me like they are going to rebrand PressPlay as the new legal Napster and hope that people buy it because of name recognition
That said, Mozilla is still far better than IE and has become the default browers on all my systems (both Linux and Winblows)
However if it wasn't the person who wrote despertly needs to learn some history and stop spreading disgusting lies
Semi-offtopic but where did you find Buffy 4 and 5? I have 1-3 and I thought 4 and 5 hadn't been released yet
I use Mozilla with privoxy for ad-blocking and didn't see any pop-ups (of any kind) at that site
More Acurate: Under Windows: Insert CD Autorun Installer Crashes Run setup.exe Type in ID number Wait... Installer Frezzes up Run setup.exe Type in ID number Click through 37 page EULA that could say they promise to give Bill Gates your first born child for all you know Wait... Click Icon Get Error Message Download and Install new drivers for video and sound card Reboot Click Icon Download and Install new version of DirectX Reboot Click Icon Blue Screen of Death Reboot Click Icon Wait... Play until game crashes again Under Linux: Insert CD Start Wine Load Binary Crashes Load Again Get untellagible error message Give up on trying to run Windows games on Linux and find something better to do.
Has anyone been able to download the source for WineX (using CVS). Every time I try I get a error (usualy "connection reset by peer")
"Here's another spoiler for you, Anakin will become Darth Vader and use a red light saber." Damnit! Now you gave it away and there's no reasson for me to see the movie.
Since each TV ad aired reaches thousands, if not millions, of people and the TV networks don't know exactly who is watching what show it is impossible to target to individual taste. Instead they target their ads to broad demographic groups. For example young and middle aged men make up the majority of people watching football so they run ads for products typicall associated with those groups (ie. beer, cars, etc). Children are most likley to be watching saturday morning cartoons, so they advirtise things like toys and kool-aid
Internet voting will not "cure voter apathy" but it will increase turnout mearly because it will allow people who don't have the time, motivation and/or ability to go to a polling place and wait in line to vote. Whether or not this is a good thing, however, is another issue altogether
I have been using both MS Office and StarOffice/OO for about 2 years (MS on my work desktop (Win2k), OO on my personal laptop(Red Hat Linux) and have never had any significant problems. I find OO to be full featured and as easy to use as MS with the pluses of being free and running on Linux.
Just out of curiousity what do you use to listen to your mp3 player. I have a creative jukebox 3 that I listen to with good (but not audiophile quality) headphones and in my car (through a tape adapter) and honestly can't tell the difference between a good mp3 and a cd played through the same speakers/headphones